Portuguese edition: http://samvak.tripod.com/snapshottingvakninportuguese.pdf

This book is a kaleidoscope. But rather than tilt it this way and that – it tilts you. You begin to see things the way you have never contemplated them before. The acid trip of incisive text and drawings in the naïve style is indelible.

            Ostensibly, the book is a commentary on my tome, “Malignant Self-love: Narcissism Revisited”. But it is far more than that. It brings together insights from psychology, biology, and even immunology – the author’s academic fields – to throw new light on Cluster B Personality Disorders. But it is also an indictment of dysfunctional parenting (mainly motherhood). It is equally an introduction to what makes us human. Like all great works in psychology, it is actually a profoundly philosophical treaty.

            Yet, the book is also a pragmatic vade mecum. A “how-to” self-help manual. An autobiographical memoir. A snapshot of our contemporary increasingly more barbaric civilization. And an art treasury.

            You can agree or disagree with the theses presented in the book. But you cannot remain indifferent – or the same having read it. 

Prof. Sam Vaknin, author of “Malignant Self-love: Narcissism Revisited”

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